Christoph Bode - Curriculum vitae#

1. Education and Employment

• 2001- Chair of Modern English Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) (after rejecting parallel offer from Heidelberg University)
• 1997 Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
• 1992-2001 Professor of English and American Literature, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
• 1986-92 Associate Professor, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
• 1989-90 Professor of English and American Literature, Justus-Liebig- Universität Giessen (temp. replacement)
• 1977-86 Assistant Professor, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
• 1986 Habilitation, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
• 1978 Ph.d., Philipps-Universität Marburg
• 1976 State Examination, Philipps-Universität Marburg
• 1971-76 Reads English, Philosophy, and Geography at Philipps-Universität Marburg, and at University *College Cardiff (German government grant)

2. Research Grants and Fellowships, Awards and Prizes, Invitations, Academic and Scholarly Functions

• 2011 Elected member, Academia Europaea
• 2011 By invitation, organizer and chair of a double session at the conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Park City, Utah, August 11-14
• 2011– Editorial boards, Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (Spain) and Victoriographies: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914 (Edinburgh UP)
• 2011 Negotiates special membership agreement between the Japanese Association for English Romanticism (JAER) and the German Society for English Romanticism (GER)
• 2010 December 16-17, at the invitation of L'Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, guest of honour at the colloquium "Mélancolyre: Lire et penser la mélancolie romantique"
• 2010 November: two weeks' lecture tour through Japan, following invitations from Nagoya University, Tohoku University at Sendai, Chuo University at Tokyo, as well as Waseda University, Tokyo
• 2010 By invitation, organizer and chair of two sessions at the conference of NASSR, Vancouver, August 18-22
• 2010- Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich
• 2010- Elected to the Advisory Board of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
• 2009- Occasional columnist for Times Higher Education
• 2009 November: By special invitation of the universities Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Paris 7 (Denis Diderot) as well as of the Société d'Etudes du Romantisme Anglais (SERA) academic sojourn in Paris with lecture for both universities
• 2009- Referee for European Research Council
• 2008- Advanced Investigator Grant of the European Research Council (900.000 Euros) for research project "Narrating Futures" (three years' sabbatical as from April 1, 2009)
• 2008 November: US lecture tour, following invitations from the universities of Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Yale, Colorado (Boulder, Col.), UC Los Angeles, Washington (Seattle, Wash.), and UC Berkeley
• 2008 Inauguration of joint UC Berkeley-LMU Munich research group, "The Heterogeneity of Romanticism", involving 10 professors from Berkeley and 5 from LMU
• 2008 Extra sabbatical year, funded by LMUexcellent (Exzellenzinitiative, 3. Förderlinie)
• 2008 Special seminar on "British Romantics in Italy", Venice International University, co-taught with Prof. Angela Esterhammer, March 10-14, 2008
• 2008 Organizer of first joint conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) and the German Society for English Romanticism, Munich, February 21-24
• 2007- Appointed Member of the University Council (Hochschulrat) of Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
• 2007 Christensen Fellow, St Catherine's, Oxford University
• 2007 By invitation, organizer and chair of special session at the joint North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)/British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) conference, Bristol
• 2007 Extra sabbatical year, funded by DFG (German Research Foundation)
• 2006-8 Steering Committee, The New Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere
• 2006- Corresponding Centenary Fellow, English Association (FEA)
• 2005- Member, Münchener Kompetenz-Zentrum Ethik (Munich Centre for Ethics)
• 2005 Funding for International Conference on European Romanticism, Munich, DFG
• 2005- German-Canadian Research Group, "Discursive Constructions of Identity"
• 2005 By invitation, organizer and chair of double session at the NASSR conference, Montreal
• 2005 Negotiates special membership agreement between BARS and the German Society for English Romanticism
• 2004- Advisory Board, European Romantic Review
• 2004 Invited Plenary Speaker at the NASSR conference, Boulder, CO; negotiates special membership agreement between NASSR and the German Society for English Romanticism
• 2004- Professorial member of the Prüfungshauptausschuss G, Bavaria
• 2002 Advisor, House Committee on Culture and Sciences, Bavarian Parliament
• 2002 Chair Jury, Prize for Best Habilitation Thesis, Deutscher Anglistenverband
• 2001- President, German Society for English Romanticism
• 2001-2007 Fulbright Liaison Person for LMU Munich (effectively for Technical University Munich as well)
• 2001 Chair Jury, Prize for Best Journalism, Deutscher Anglistenverband
• 2000-06 European Convener for the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere
• 2000 Travel Grant for Research in the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
• 1998-2002 Board member of the Deutscher Anglistenverband
• 1999- Editorial board, Aldoux Huxley Annual
• 1998- Curator, International Aldous Huxley Society
• 1997 Travel Grant, Fulbright Commission
• 1995- Editorial Board, Erfurt Electronic Studies
• 1994-95 Research Grant, Otto Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
• 1990- Editorial board, Litteraria Pragensia
• 1988 Prize for Best Habilitation Thesis in the period of 1984-88, Deutscher Anglistentag
• 1976 Ph.d. Research Stipend, DFG
• 1973-74 Stipend, DAAD

Referee for:

European Research Council, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Volkswagenstiftung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Fulbright Commission, Cusanus-Werk, European Romantic Review, Literature Compass, Routledge